skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is just the flip side of why people support progressive taxes. If you believe that a flat tax is unfair because the people at the lower end of the spectrum have much less free money that isn't taken up by base needs, then it follows that different amounts of money affect people in different circumstances differently.

To the person with 10 million dollars, doubling their wealth is nice for them but likely won't result in a major change in lifestyle and what they could or couldn't do before. Maybe they go from a large house to a larger house. For the person that makes 30 thousand a year, doubling it makes a huge difference in how they live. The disposable income amount doesn't double, it's likely many many times higher, because it was such a relatively small portion before.

The same thing applies to one-time payments. It would make sense in your example even if the payout was much less (like $10k) but still affected the group similarly (i.e. if they had less disposable income). That amount of money is a huge to people that have little disposable income.
I love the idea of web workers. I struggle to find a use case that isn't limited by serialization/deserialization.

AFAIK, workers are strings in and strings out. Often serialization is the most expensive operation, so adding additional serialization/deserialization steps can decrease performance overall.

The only use case I can imagine that would really benefit is computation-heavy with minimal input/output.

Until there is safe shared memory (please correct me if I'm wrong) I don't see many compelling use cases for web workers.
That assumes a land line to plug the fax machine into.
GSM phones are digital and include a special FAX mode.
Interesting that it should be in Romanian also.

No doubt there degrees of badness, but my impression is that the serf's life was never particularly enjoyable.
Voice Conversion for Children's Voices: Additional Dialogue Recording (ADR)
Famed Chinese immunologist cleared of plagiarism and fraud
Goodbye 2010s: techno-optimism edition
Micro-service architectures are an absurd overcomplexity for smaller internal apps. They only really make sense when a monolithic system becomes too large for a single team to manage, at which point the micro-service boundaries reflect team boundaries.
transferring specific violations to general violations is the problem in this case.
You’d be better off installing a caching proxy, so that all connections from all of your devices share one cache, rather than only altering settings in one browser.

If you’re a Mac user with more than one of any kind of Apple device on your network (like, two Macs), you can install their Server app on any macOS and enable software update caching as well.
Sure. I was assuming that culling to the "top million" would skew things in favor of GA. Clearly it didn't, but I was surprised. And you're probably right. All those Wordpress instances does drive a lot of the stats.
Maybe your favourite site would welcome a direct contribution, instead of an ad click
The question for Premium to Ultimate is "are you using GitLab for project and requirements management?"

For that, the ultimate tier is now competing with a Jira suite, or something that PMs use made by Microsoft or a similar type of product.

The licensing for the project management tool can easily run $50+/month/user

Add in the "business/customer access to the issue tracking" and if you've got Jira or similar, that adds on a gain a bit more $$.

Next, adding the artifact scanning tools. Yes, you can get them 3rd party... but its another thing to set up.

In the end, picture the 50-100 employee shop where the sysadmin is weighing in on "get GitLab Premium vs GitLab ultimate" and the reduction of additional installs and licenses that need to be managed.

Yea, it it adds $80/user/month, but if it saves an hour or two per user per month in productivity gains - that can make a difference.

In the organization I currently work for, we were considering the options of (GitLab Ultimate) vs (GitLab Premium + Jira + other tools) and ultimately went with the premium and other for a number of reasons... but GitLab Ultimate made a strong showing.
Checks still in use in Canada as well. I had a person today tell me they had 3 checks stolen and cashed and my response was “people still use checks?”.
> How do you show how bad something is without showing the thing?

Ordinarily, we'd simulate it. No one is actually killed in the production of a war film.

But when the actresses themselves are children, it's not a simulation.
The majority of lamp post chargers in London are ubitricity.

Of the multiple networks I've used, these are the cheapest and most reliable to use... pricing very close to domestic electric rates, and it's up to you to secure your parking (which is a good thing as something like Source London includes a parking fee even when a CPZ is not in action).

The only issue with ubitricity to date is that whether or not they're in your area depends on your council being willing to work with them. Shell would help this a lot.
Chris DeRusha, who protected Biden campaign from hackers, is the Federal CISO
I am totally pro-hosted solutions. However, hosted postgres is always none of it. I had experience on same size machine some queries took 30x time longer on hosted vs selfhosted
Does it have integration with common password managers? Bitwarden, 1Password, etc. The extra layer of security is good for extra sensitive stuff.
$4/m to $20/m? That's a pretty steep increase.

It's also really difficult to work out the impact of this. The feature comparison never really seems to include important git features, just headline sales features.
Of course anyone could install charging points. It is much easier than running a petrol station and could be complimentary to a lot of other businesses.

The opportunity for an investor is finding low hanging fruit. Or securing a higher price for electricity you intend to generate.
This is awesome, thank you! The likelihood of pill compliance does seem to be probably higher than normal since everyone had 2 month follow-up appointments for injections, plus presumably they knew they were being blood tested. This looks like a game changer for HIV prevention. 6 shots a year and you can have better protection than any other known method. To me it looks like this is something that should be rapidly adopted.
Exactly the problem cryptocurrency was created to address.
Thank you. I am not sure how to introduce transit and the concept of hops in an introductory post without explaining in depth about the networking side of it. Maybe you could help me out with that?
You're back to the phone app problem there; you'd need accounts with a bunch of different charging companies.

Unless you were having the car actually pay on your behalf, I suppose, but that has other obvious problems.
I miss the 90s where HTML pages just contained just super informative text and a bunch of links to other super informative text. Flash was fun for a while with some nice animations and interactivity, then the JS themes took over, they were double edged swords - they enabled us to do things previously we would need separate installable desktop applications for (Email, Powerpoint, etc.) on the browser itself, but it also enabled every newbie hipster to push these tools for everyday pages, the value of the informative plain text was eroded in just under a decade and replaced with subscription popups, with shallow titled articles like "4 ways you can do X..by the way give me your email so I can spam you"

I miss the marquee era, truly.
√(2560² + 1600²) ÷ 8.9, that’s 339dpi, waaaaay too much for 1× use.

1920×1200 is 1.33×, 254ppi, still waaay too fine.

1440×900 is 1.78×, 191ppi, still way too fine.

I’d think 1280×800, 2×, 170ppi, is probably about right for a laptop like this, though it’s still likely to be a bit on the too-fine scale so that I’d give 1024×640, 2.5×, 136ppi, a try also.

I think I did a bit of fractional scaling on Linux a few years back and it went fine, but I’m not quite sure—my memory’s fuzzy on the point, I might have just tweaked the dpi that I told X.org (to reflect reality) and not adjusted anything else. But certainly Windows handles all scaling, including fractional, pretty much perfectly.
How far along are we with machines that suck CO2 out of the air?
There was this great design for a microwave that a UX designer proposed. One button for +30 seconds, no clock, and a door handle. That's it. Everything else is superfluous.
Yeah, I'm pretty sure everyone dreams up some "cool" thing. I got a bit excited because this is something I could actually build myself. In fact, why wait, I'll start with some basic design.
By "community-oriented", do you mean that the distribution of commits was such that more people were making more commits, instead of "95% of the work is done by a nucleus of people"?

I'm not sure if those are the same thing, I'm just talking about the distribution of work.
It's that fundamentally, our opinions are similar: There exists some point beyond which the threat is great enough to change our lifestyle permanently. We simply disagree about exactly where that point is.
In NYC, this is more likely.

https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/spectrum-sues-union-pic...
There is no way in hell Twitter is going to give up on ads any time soon. Maintaining a service like Twitter costs hundreds of millions of dollars in infra and workers and it's highly unlikely that Revue could cover those costs. Even if by some miracle, Revue manages to pays the bill, it would be impossible to justify to shareholders giving up on such a huge source of revenue that is ads.

tl;dr twitter giving up on ads ain't happening
If this is a troll, you really captured the voice of the bro-engineer. Kudos.

If this is an actual thing, I can't wait to laugh while reading the inevitable 'My great start-up idea failed. I have no idea why' Medium post in 3 months.
I think their point is that shows that were produced with ads in mind simply play through with no gaps (similar to how ad-free streaming services play them).

How do they schedule the shows to account for the odd lengths?
Kill a hundred thousand Yemenis and nobody bats an eye, but you bone-saw one little washington post reporter and now it's a crisis.
I started reading the "Performance" section, and after reading that he is writing this on Atom, I didn't need to read any further.

If it can run atom, it can pretty much anything.
End Two Federal Programs That Fund Police Surveillance Tech
When half of my coworkers on a Zoom call (including myself) got kicked within ten seconds of each other, I figured something major had happened. Western PA. Was somewhere around 11:24 EST.

Network never went down completely, bitrate just took a nosedive.
Oh yeah, that's spot on!
> but in the case of making a real application that people will use, it seems like a lot of us can get away with a single DB, a few workers of our app, and maybe a cache.

A couple of points:

1. Kubernetes can run monoliths. It's certainly not exclusive to microservices or SOA. It's just a compute scheduler, quite similar to AWS's EC2 reservations and auto-scaling groups (ASG's).

2. I can't speak for every corporation, but if you already have patterns for one platform (note: "platform" in this context means compute scheduling. eg: AWS, GCP, Kubernetes, Serverless) then you will inevitably try to copy patterns you already implement internally. A lot of times, for better or for worse, it's not what fits best unless what fits best and what you have available are highly conflicting.

3. A lot of times "scaling" is actually code for multi-tenancy. As an industry, we should probably be explicit when we're scaling for throughput, redundancy, and/or isolation. They are not the same thing and at times at odds with each other.

4. I don't really like your use of "real application" here as it implies some level of architectural hierarchy. My main takeaway after 10+ years of professional development is that architectures are often highly contextual to resource availability, platform access, and personal preferences. Sometimes there's a variable of languages too, because some languages make microservice architecture quite easy while others make it a royal PITA.
I think having a known system running a custom UI is the way to go, personally. You get the benefits of years of engineering research while still getting to have a differentiating factor that users can see.
Thanks again for the feedback, we've added a little "help" page now.
"If you have feedback, insults, etc. happy to read them here :)"

"Your Mother Was A Hamster, And Your Father Smelt Of Elderberries"

You asked for insults /shrugging
Multiple Issue Assignees for me
There are two survey questions concerning non-Canadian born students in the linked 2020 profile PDF:

1) International vs Domestic students (6.2% vs 93.8%)

2) Did you immigrate to Canada? (47.56% yes)

You used the answer for 2).

I think the answer for 1) answers your question better than the answer for 2), which doesn't answer when/why they immigrated to Canada.

Plus you're looking at the profile for the 2020 Software Engineering class. Computer science is a different program in the Math faculty. The two programs may have different international student composition.

Tuition is one of the reasons there are so few international students. International students in UWaterloo SWEng pay almost 4x as much as domestic students (C$61.3K vs C$17.1K) - see https://uwaterloo.ca/future-students/financing/tuition.

International CS students pay C$45.5K vs C$9.3K for domestic CS students.
This is the comment you're replying to:

> why blame older people for your generation having less sex?

If you think it is the responsibility of older people that younger people aren't having as much sex, then why?

If not, then what are you challenging? I didn't say that there was more sex going on, not that student debt was great, not that Tinder was awesome.

Your whole argument seems to be 'there is less sex available because fewer people want to have sex'. This is, of course, a somewhat one-sided view of the situation. It does not contradict my suggestion that younger people are choosing to have less sex. Nor does it disprove the theory that the availability of alternatives to in-person sex has made it less attractive.
Compliance is a big issue, as is price. In the US, Truvada's retail price is about $2,000 for a 30 day supply. Truvada costs about $40 in other countries.
75% of internet users
IKEA will sell spare parts for its furniture in latest sustainability drive
The US-China Race for Supremacy in AI and Biotech: Which Role for New Silk Road?
Having them be two brothers makes for a lower business continuity risk than having it be a business owner + 1 random employee.
It's a shame that PrEP is still so expensive.
Show HN: Tiny Land Online
I don’t think people agree on 95% of issues at all. If you talk to many people in private after they get to know you, they reveal all sorts of ideas they don’t like to talk about publicly. If you don’t react well though they will never mention it again. This makes it seem like everyone agrees even when they don’t
If they're prevented from entering a competing vertical (electric charging), doesn't that guarantee a conflict? They'd be putting everything into protecting their existing vertical (oil and gas).
Many people underestimated the first iPhone. It has all the capabilities to be a disruptive technology. The appstore was missing only due to timing of the release (this is my assumption, haven't checked out).

Also Christensen book has been critiqued many times especially about the inevitability of the disruptive technology [1].

[1] https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/06/23/the-disruption...
It also significantly deters people from ever modifying that code and using it commercial applications, even if they are willing to open it up sometime in the future.

(Believe me, as a several-time CTO, I've wound up in every case deciding that modifying virally-licensed code is way more trouble that it could ever be worth...)
Show HN: An Intellij Plugin for the Builder Pattern
As a fun project and to solve a real problem I had with using the Builder pattern in my code I recently released an Intellij plugin to tackle the issue. I started with the point given out by the author of the lombok plugin ( https://github.com/rzwitserloot/lombok/wiki/FEATURE-IDEA:-%2... ) and put in some of my ideas. This is just the first release so if anyone finds it useful and decides to try it out I would be more than glad to receive any feedback.
Did you actually read the article?

> Their bio-mimicking spiral patterns improved the overall durability of the 3D printed concrete...

That's like, the 4th paragraph in the article published by the university.
I completely agree. For me, the zenith was season 3, but any season of HCF was the closer to catching on film what being in a startup is like than any other show I've seen.
I'm 100% certain the UK government's actual plan to force all new cars to be electric in a few year's time is more of an influence on a fossil fuel supplier acquiring UK car charging networks than your own speculation about a post-car world. Sure, there's no certainty the world won't be restructured to allow everybody to pool AGI taxis, but that's not really a factor in Shell backing EVs against the petroleum it made its fortune with.
Nose Sanitizer Proves 99.9% Effective Against Covid-19
Why is it falling behind? Is it mainly because of Linux or are there other factors?
> but for someone like me

Of course that's a special case which doesn't apply to most people. But also, why can't the CGM just have its own display, which would simplify things a lot more and likely also require much less power if it used e.g. eInk?

It sounds ridiculous to me that a medical-grade device should depend on a second consumer-grade device to be useful. If it's an added feature for e.g. logging or monitoring or telemetry to the doctors, great, I understand, but if you're just trying to get a glucose reading I strongly believe in one device giving you that reading instead of "Hey I'm a device that your health insurance paid $1000 for but sorry I'm too lame to display data and you're going to need to install this silly iPhone app to actually read its values"

"and oh by the way we also will track your contacts, which apps you are using, your GPS, and serve you and your contacts targeted ads for glucose-free health foods from our partners at Amazon"
Hey, I've been a solo-founder for the past decade and happy to chat anytime. Twitter/email in bio.

You may like https://startupschool.org, as they have weekly group sessions where you can talk about your struggles. I took part for two batches and met some other solo-founders that I've stayed in touch with.
The thing that killed ultimate for us was the fact that there was no ticket manager only role. Why pay 100/mo for a product manager who just fills out tickets. It's absurd.
So just fangled
...and we discovered it's JavaScript. Most of it being just tracking code.
Software load balancing solutions have now more algorithms such as least time (nginx+ for example).
And yes some ISP cache DNS entries for a long time... But DNS load balancing should be used only on disaster scenarios to mitigate.
It's funny to see how languages branch out and develop independently. I specifically remember that Czech "Šukat drogy na záchodě", which means "To fuck drugs on the toilet", would be "Look for medicine in the west" in Polish. I'm not 100 % sure that the Polish is right but it shows pretty well how large the overlap between Slavic languages there is. And also how many false friends we have.
Easier to tab to it and launch it, basically, and takes up less space on your screen.
Alan Waddell
The side effects are of the type where a small group of users will experience changes in kidney function, and you have to check for it, but the vast majority won't. The side effect profile for most people is very low.
Sony reveals Alpha 1 50MP full-frame camera capable of 30fps and 8K
I think many of us have learned from Matt Levine’s newsletter that even if you do gain early access to earnings, it’s very difficult to turn that into a profitable trade.
Exactly, I have many discussions with a front end dev about this sort of thing. Our fe team uses angular so is very class focused.

I use classes to but that doesn't mean I can't be functional inside them.

It is annoying when devs religiously stuck to a style even if that makes to code base worse
Isn't concrete an engineered composite material to begin with? It's ancient. AFAIK plywood is an 19th century invention.
> never see an ad again

I wish that were true. Although uBlock Origin does a good job, some ads definitely still make it through. There are also some sites that detect ad blockers and refuse to let you in unless you disable it. There are workarounds for some of these, but it's still a bit of a mess.
Nope. There have already been articles/studies showing that "targeted advertisement" is about as effective as plopping a billboard sign on a motorway.
> You might be surprised

This is such a meaningless statement.
Major internet outages hit Northeast and Mid-Atlantic states
Can you file that here so I don't forget?

https://github.com/mozilla/fx-private-relay
Speaking only w/ regard to tech salary differences:

How do you compete against the VC-powered economic system in the US? VCs allow startups with often pie-in-the-sky visions and shaky business models to recruit the best of the best from across the world. The recruits know that they may be looking for a new job in a couple of years if the cash dries up. For them, it's OK because there will be another startup flush with cash. For the VCs, as long as 1 out of 10 of those bets go public, the ROI still works out.

This is simply not something that exists at a comparable level outside of the US, outside Silicon Valley even.
The Open Source Fivetran alternative. Yay, it was about time! A simple license : MIT. Clear differentiation between free & paid plans. I am liking what I am seeing so far. One of our client is in advertising industry and is syncing data from 20 different API vendors to postgres. So I am one of your potential customer.

However, there is a big problem I'm noticing with "Open source alternatives" lately on HN. I had to mention this.

Even a simple installation of airbyte on my local machine fails :( I tried docker-compose up!

I simply wanna know why a basic example is not working on an important day of your company ? :) Is this a genuine mistake ? Sorry, this feedback will sound harsh but companies are taking words 'open source' for a complete ride. It's a great marketing trick. Gets you plenty of eyeballs, good will & trust to begin with. Then later we figure it's not even self hostable.

Here is a bad example that you may not want to follow : Supabase "The Open Source Firebase Alternative". The product is not self hostable despite calling themselves open source firebase all over internet. The Founders of Supabase have been disingenuous not to address self hosting[1][2] and its a been long time since their launch. The self hosting section on their website[3] doesn't provide any details on how to self host and they are careless enough to even mention "how to migrate away" from Supabase in that section.

[1] : https://github.com/supabase/supabase/discussions/219#discuss...
[2] : https://github.com/supabase/supabase/issues/85#issuecomment-...
[3] : https://supabase.io/docs/guides/platform#self-hosting
So many of these projects are "mature" which means for many of them there is a risk to accepting random pull requests. In the past a growing project tended to take them without to much worry under the assumption that if a patch broke something it would get fixed. Now there is a fear of the effort required to dig through the mountains of code to "support" someone who is screaming about the code breaking.
I was just about to call FiOS to switch from Xfinity because these data caps are absolutely ridiculous. I am sad now.

Aside: Comcast, wtf? 1.2 TB limit per month? Seriously if anyone works at Comcast know that I hate your company with an overwhelming passion.